Movie Review: FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (Review #2)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the 2016 spin-off film from the wildly popular and influential Harry Potter franchise. J.K. Rowling steps into the screenwriter seat, creating new lore and stories for a period some 70 years prior to the events of the Harry Potter franchise. David Yates returns to direct his fifth film in the Potter-verse and the film stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, and Ezra Miller.

Movie Review: FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

By a fortuitous event Newt Scamander's (Eddie Redmayne) magical suitcase, containing all different kinds of magical animals, is mistakenly swapped with muggle (No-Maj in the states) Jacob Kowalski's (Dan Folger) ordinary one. Kowalski opens the suitcase and some creatures escape and are now running rampant in the middle of No-Maj New York. It is now up to Newt to retrieve them all quickly before an already delicate situation with the No-Maj community goes even more south.

Movie Review: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

Did you think you knew Tarzan's story? Well, Warner Bros. is here to prove you wrong. In their new re-imagining of the iconic character the story takes place further down the line: Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgard) now goes by the name of John Clayton, living as noble lord in London, married to Jane (Margot Robbie). Yet, when Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz), who's trying to conquer Congo for the king of Belgium, invites John down to Congo to set a trap in exchange for diamonds, Tarzan, Jane and his local friends have to find a way to overpower Rom's twisted scheme.